Uygun’s works first alienate the viewer from what she is looking at and then draw her in to involve her in their own tumult, allowing her to taste the joy of life.
At this point, what becomes alienating is not the painting in question,
but the ordinary world in its everyday flow.
Murat Alat
This book features the artist Ebru Uygun’s works that she produced between 2016 and 2023 and the transformations in her practice during the period under consideration with reference to her solo exhibitions titled Wet Light (2023), The Sky a Silver (2020), Cloud in a Raindrop (2017) and Random Process (2016). Published as a bilingual edition in Turkish and English, comprising inspirational texts by art writer and critique Murat Alat and independent curator Jesi Khadivi, the book is the most comprehensive book embracing the ouvre of the artist from 2016 to date.
In what can be referred to as her early period before 2016, Uygun created new forms out of disrupted forms by tearing her paintings of abstract forms into strips and re-configuring them in a new arrangement on another canvas. The book concentrates on the artist’s post-2016 artworks comprising building materials such as paint, plaster, and concrete randomly spattered across the canvas, where the form is abandoned to the extent possible. Deeply investigating this transformation, Ebru Uygun: Wet Light 2023 – The Sky a Silver 2020 – Cloud in a Raindrop 2017 – Random Process 2016 also offers insights into Uygun’s relations with nature, time, memory and space.
